It's Not Easy Bein' Green

      Nina, Maxie and Dillon are shocked and chagrined to see the first issue of the revamped Crimson looking as if it were thrown in a giant vat of green ink.   Julian, however, has no interest in remedying the problem.   The Crimson issue isn't the only thing that's green in Port Chuckles today.   Olivia arrives at the Davis-Jerome abode with a giant framed picture of her, Julian, and baby Leo posing in the green Ugly Christmas Sweaters she got them. 

    As for the less green parts of the show, Jason and Sam get closer as he shares a memory with her.   Franco lets Jake draw on his art therapy pad and is shocked by the macabre nature of what the kid drew.  Patrick and Robin tell Emma, then Anna, that they are moving out west for a fresh start and new job opportunities.   Jordan's mystery New Year's Eve date is revealed as they meet at Kelly's for Date #2.  

     CRIMSON OFFICE

       DILLON:  Let's pop open some bubbly because the first issue of NinaCrimson is RIGHT HERE, hot off the presses! 
       MAXIE:  O to the MG!   YAY US!  
       NINA:  We friggin' DID IT, you guys! 
       DILLON:  (opens the box) UH OH! 
       NINA:  What Oh? 
       DILLON:  When you said this issue was going to make Crimson a lot of the green stuff, I think the printers took that literally. 
        NINA:  What the...IT'S ALL GREEN!   THE WHOLE MAGAZINE IS FRIGGIN' GREEN!    THE COVER IS GREEN!  THE PAGES ARE GREEN!   ST. PATRICK'S DAY ISN'T UNTIL MARCH!!!!
       MAXIE:  That is SO not what I had in mind when I pitched environmentally-friendly couture. 
      

      LAKE HOUSE

       OLIVIA:  Merry Christmas!  Happy New Year!  Thanks for inviting me.  Oh yeah, you didn't, but who am I to hold a grudge?  This is for you, Julian. 
        JULIAN:  It's...well...HUGE! 
        ALEXIS:  That's one way of putting it.  
        OLIVIA:  I know the perfect place for it.   Right over the fireplace for all to see!  
        ALEXIS:  Isn't it a little...I don't know...Christmasy?   More of a seasonal decoration, don't you think?  
        JULIAN:  It's got Leo in it, so I really don't care how obnoxious...ly cute the sweaters are.  


       SAM'S APARTMENT

       JASON:  I remembered something.  
       SAM:  Continue...but only if you feel like continuing.  I'm not going to PUSH or PRESSURE you or anything. 
       JASON:  I remembered the footbridge and younger Robin, and me giving you that necklace.  Did I give you that necklace or am I having a fake memory? 
       SAM:  You TOTALLY gave this to me.  
       JASON:  This remembering thing's got me a little nervous, even though Robin said I wasn't that bad of a guy.  If I remember too much, Sonny's gonna make me be his goon again and I really don't want to be anyone's goon.  Especially if it means having a goon chip put in my head. 

       
      SCORPIO-DRAKE HOUSE

       ROBIN:  Emma, we have big, huge news.  We're moving to CALIFORNIA!   You know what's in California?   DISNEYLAND! 
       EMMA:  We're moving to DISNEYLAND?   Won't Grandma miss us if we're all the way on the other side of the country? 
       PATRICK:  We're not moving TO Disneyland, sweetheart, but we're moving to a place called Berkeley where Mommy and Daddy have new jobs and you'll go to a new school.  Isn't that awesome? 
       EMMA:  I'm going to miss my friends.  Even Spencer, who still thinks he's in love with me.   If I leave him behind, he might have a heart attack. 
      ROBIN:  Spencer will miss you, Emma, because you're a sweet girl, but I think his heart will be just fine.  I know.  I'm a doctor.  
      EMMA:  But you better tell Grandma.  Her heart's a lot older than Spencer.  

     
      KELLY'S

      JORDAN:  Remember how I had a date with this guy on New Year's Eve?
      ANNA:  How did it go?  
      JORDAN:  He's going to show up any minute for Date #2.  
      ANNA:  That's great news.  (phone rings)  Excuse me.  (to Robin over phone)  Robin?  Are you okay?  Have you been kidnapped for the 3,000th time?   Where's Patrick?  Where's Emma?
      ROBIN:  Mom, we're fine, but can you teleport yourself over here so we can tell you something huge?  
      ANNA:  Are you sure it has NOTHING to do with Jacks, Cassadines, Obrechts, or any other of this town's most notorious evildoers? 
      ROBIN:  I'm sure.  Now get over here, like five minutes ago!  

    
      HOSPITAL

        FRANCO:  Hey kid, wanna play with my crayons and scribble pad?  
        JAKE:  STRANGER DANGER!  
        LIZ:  Stay away from my sweet little boy you...FRANCO! 
        FRANCO:  But I'm a changed man.  You let me take you to that gala thingy, didn't you?   Besides we're both pariahs, remember?  
        LIZ:  Remember how you kidnapped Aiden when he was a baby to give your fake mom a Franco 2.0?  
        FRANCO:  But I was a totally different person then.  I even LOOKED different and had curlier hair.  And brown eyes.   I'm not that guy anymore.   Now everybody just calls me Todd, even thought that's not my name.  It's really kinda weird though.  
        LIZ:  Fine, Jake can use your crayons, but i'll be watching you.   Think Robert DeNiro in Meet The Parents.  

      
      CRIMSON OFFICE

      JULIAN:  What's the emergency?
      NINA:  Code Green, Julian.  There was a not-so-little mishap at the printers.   Either his kid finger-painted on millions of copies of our first issue of Crimson 2.0 or someone is making a very literal statement on going green.
      JULIAN:  Yeah, it will match the shade of the advertiser's faces when they see it.  Oh well, don't cry over spilt milk.   What's done is done. 
      NINA:  We need to reprint this issue or Crimson's in the crapper!  
      JULIAN:  As I'm sure you've noticed, we're not flush with cash.  See ya.   
      MAXIE:  There goes my fashion career!  
      NINA:  Come on, guys!  Embrace the green!   Crimson is Green in 2016.  Say it with me!  
      MAXIE:  But Crimson means RED!  
      DILLON:  Therein lies the irony, Maxie.   Embrace the irony.  Embrace the green!
      CRIMSON MAGAZINE COPIES:  It's not easy being green...

    
      LAKE HOUSE

       OLIVIA:  Just admit it Alexis.  You HATE the picture.  That's fine.  I'll de-gift it. 
       ALEXIS:  Don't you passive-aggressive with me, Olivia.  Besides, degifting is even worse than regifting. 
       OLIVIA:  Is that a rock I see on your finger?  So now Julian's getting ENGAGED without letting his baby mama know?   Was it the sweaters, Alexis?  WAS IT THE SWEATERS??? 
       ALEXIS:  Well...do you really want me to answer that?  

      
      KELLY'S  

      JORDAN:  This really is a small town.  Everybody knows each other here. 
      DR. MADDOX:  I'm a colleague of her son-in-law.  Is that a problem for you?  How do you really feel about this, Jordan? 
      JORDAN:  No it's totally fine.  No problem at all. 
      DR. MADDOX:  These BLTs are really good.  
      JORDAN:  Well, my ex came up with the recipe.  It even got him kidnapped by a BLT-obsessed madwoman once.   I kid you not.  
      DR. MADDOX:  BLT obsession, that's a new one, even for me. 


     SAM'S APARTMENT

      JASON:  I've been having a really good time with you, Sam.  Maybe because I'm kinda sorta remembering why I chose you for a wife.  Do you want to go get coffee? 
      SAM:  Coffee sounds good.  No pressure.  

    
      SCORPIO-DRAKE HOUSE

       ROBIN:  Mom, Patrick, Emma, and I are moving 3,000 miles away because I got a way better job in California than staying here and working for Obrecht. 
       ANNA:  California.  I suppose it does help to put some distance between yourself and a woman who held you captive for almost two years.  
       ROBIN:  At least this time I'm not abandoning my family.  I'm taking them with me.  Hey, you can come too if you'd like. 
      ANNA:  As soon as I'm finished chasing down some bad guys in Port Chuckles, I will consider it. 
      EMMA:  Grandma, I'm moving to California with Mommy and Daddy.   Is that going to make you really sad?
      ANNA:  I will miss you, sweet Emma, but we will visit each other.  
      EMMA:  There's one thing you have to do before we leave, Mommy and Daddy.  You have to get married again and never EVER get a divorce! 

      
      HOSPITAL

      FRANCO: (looking at Jake's drawings)  And I thought I was one disturbed kid!   Get this one to Art Therapy STAT.